The global and the intimate (008GS)
The global and the intimate: home cultures, belonging and personal life
Module 008GS
Module details for 2021/22.
30 credits
FHEQ Level 6
Module Outline
The meaning of home is often taken-for-granted as a mundane and trivial feature of everyday life, but this module will explore its complexity in full. Workshops will focus on domestic practices of home in terms of consumption, display and identification; the inhabitation of the embodied and sensuous home space; family, heteronormativity and gendered practices of home (un)making; the lifecourse and home as a site of childhood and ageing; the politics of housing and home, including displacement, domicide and homelessness; and migration, belonging and transnational home-making. Our studies of the representation of home in literature and film will be complemented by a trip to the Geffrye Museum of Home.
Module learning outcomes
Evaluate and explain key concepts.
Reflect critically on key geographical and interdisciplinary debates on home.
Provide evidence of detailed knowledge and understanding of a diversity in experiences of home.
Identify, explore, and critically discuss appropriate empirical evidence in response to essay titles.
| Type | Timing | Weighting |
|---|---|---|
| Essay (4000 words) | Semester 2 Assessment Week 1 Tue 16:00 | 80.00% |
| Coursework | 20.00% | |
| Coursework components. Weighted as shown below. | ||
| Essay | T2 Week 8 | 100.00% |
Timing
Submission deadlines may vary for different types of assignment/groups of students.
Weighting
Coursework components (if listed) total 100% of the overall coursework weighting value.
| Term | Method | Duration | Week pattern |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Semester | Lecture | 1 hour | 11111111111 |
| Spring Semester | Workshop | 2 hours | 11011111110 |
| Spring Semester | Workshop | 3 hours | 00100000000 |
How to read the week pattern
The numbers indicate the weeks of the term and how many events take place each week.
Dr Katie Walsh
Convenor
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Dr Simon Rycroft
Assess convenor
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Prof Julian Murton
Assess convenor
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